Almost 100 workers faint in Koh Kong factory
Almost 100 workers at the KKN factory in the special economic zone in Koh Kong province’s Mondul sima district fainted on Tuesday morning while working. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50103780/almost-100-workers-faint-in-koh-kong-factory/
Thais detain two Cambodian loggers
Two Cambodians and a Thai national were arrested by Thai soldiers on Tuesday night for illegal logging and transporting rosewood over the border to Cambodia’s Oddar Meanchey province. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50108947/thais-detain-two-cambodian-loggers/
Domestic energy boost reduces reliance on imports
Cambodia’s domestic electricity production grew significantly in 2015, helping to reduce the Kingdom’s reliance on imported energy, the national electricity regulator said in its newly released annual report. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Matthieu de Gaudemar
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/domestic-energy-boost-reduces-reliance-imports
Cambodia joins int’l system for registry of industrial designs
Cambodia will join an international convention on the registration of industrial designs next month, furthering the scope of the county’s intellectual property protections, a government official said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Matthieu de Gaudemar
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-joins-intl-system-registry-industrial-designs
Misbehaving foreigners banned
More than 3,500 foreigners committed immigration offenses last year and more than 800 were banned from returning to Cambodia, the Interior Ministry’s report for 2016 said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35766/misbehaving-foreigners-banned/
Local coffee sector gets a jolt
Several international and local coffee induStry repreSentativeS gathered yeSterday for the Start of a three-day event promoting partnerShipS and franchiSing opportunitieS to SatiSfy Cambodia&rSquo;S growing coffee cravingS. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/local-coffee-sector-gets-jolt
Election monitor: Sample-based observation most effective
Transparency International has pledged a rapid assessment of potential irregularities in sunday’s commune elections by sending 1,100 observers across Cambodia—including, if needed, by boat and helicopter. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hannah Hawkins
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/election-monitor-sample-based-observation-most-effective-130668/
City buses to expand to new routes
Phnom Penh’s city bus municipal public transit system will be adding five bus routes to its existing network in mid-July, City Hall spokesman Met Measpheakdey said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/city-buses-expand-new-routes
Speed Pay has plans for cash in a digital age
Speed Pay Plc, a newly licenSed electronic paymentS Service provider (PSP), iS gearing up to join the rankS of mobile platformS tapping into Cambodia&rSquo;S naScent digital payment Sector. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/speed-pay-has-plans-cash-digital-age
Timber seized at association
A Khmer-Vietnamese Association representative in Ratanakkiri yesterday denied that illegally logged timber confiscated from the group’s office in Tes Anglong village on Tuesday belonged to the association. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/timber-seized-association
‘Double-muscled’ pigs in Banteay Meanchey go viral
A pig farm in Banteay Meanchey province has drawn the ire of the world’s largest animal rights non-profit after videos of its abnormally muscular pigs went viral. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Daphne Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/double-muscled-pigs-banteay-meanchey-go-viral
Anti-tank mine explodes in Banteay Meanchey
An anti-tank mine exploded after demining experts drove a machine over it in a cassava plantation in Banteay Meanchey’s Malai district yesterday, but no one was injured. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50101666/anti-tank-mine-explodes-banteay-meanchey/
MFIs as one commercial bank
PhillipCapital, a singapore-based integrated financial services provider and a majority stakeholder in three of Cambodia’s micro-finance institutions (MFIs), plans to consolidate the three into a commercial bank. ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2012122560462/Business/mfis-as-one-commercial-bank.html
Geopacific extends its copper zone
Geopacific Resources, an Australian mineral exploration company, said it has extended the zone of copper found in Preah Vihear province’s Kou sa district to 18 kilometres, the company announced yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052965899/Business/geopacific-extends-its-copper-zone.html
PPSEZ to get clinic
A private clinic aiming to provide medical care to factory workers in the Phnom Penh special Economic Zone (sEZ) will open this month, the health centre’s managing director said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ppsez-get-clinic
Timber seized during bust
Mixed security forces led by Kratie province’s court prosecutor yesterday arrested six people in a huge illegal logging bust, confiscating more than 100 cubic metres of protected luxury-grade timber. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/timber-seized-during-bust
Food fight: Vendors and security feud over parking
Security guardS from Derm Kor market in Phnom Penh&rSquo;S Tuol Kork diStrict deStroyed produce from nearly 100 vegetable vendorS yeSterday morning after ordering SellerS to vacate the premiSeS for parking. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/food-fight-vendors-and-security-feud-over-parking
Funding ‘not misused’
During a defence of his 30-year legacy on Wednesday, Prime Minister Hun sen also took pains to extricate the nation’s newest, longest and most expensive bridge from corruption allegations. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/funding-not-misused
Families say firm cleared land, graves
More than 100 families in Rattanakkiri’s O’Chum district are demanding a solution after a Chinese company allegedly bulldozed their land and nearby family graves to create a rubber plantation. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/families-say-firm-cleared-land-graves
Cambodia rebukes "labor abuse" report
Cambodia has rejected a U.s.- based Human Rights Watch’s “labor abuse” report, saying the report is groundless, according to a statement released by the Ministry of Labor late on Friday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cambodia-rebukes-%22labor-abuse%22-report-8301